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Kevin Roose: The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University 4 stars

Review of "The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University" on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Kevin Roose, raised in a liberal Quaker (for those unfamiliar, liberal Quakers are culturally similar to Unitarian Universalists) household, set out on a "study domestic" to Liberty University, to experience American evangelical Christian culture. He hoped to humanize these people who were, to him, a stereotype or a caricature. By the end of the semester, he's found (as Quakers say) "that of God" in not just his fellow students but even in Jerry Falwell.